Heb. 6

Are you a good farmer? Does your land produce thorns or thistles or good crops? The author of Hebrews uses this metaphor to say that the fruit of a person’s life that lacks God’s saving presence will be burned. The produce of their life is worthless.

This is stiff talk. Yet, it must be pointed out that a life that is so contradictory to God’s holiness is headed in the wrong direction. He says it’s impossible to bring them back to a changed life again. Can they recover themselves? We hope and pray that they do.

Don’t put me in a theological stereotype here, but I would hope we could see these lives turned around through patient, persistent prevailing prayer. (The prayer of faith!)

One of my best friends, the man who introduced me to my wife, turned away from God and was producing some thorns and thistles. He came back to the Lord and got his life straightened out after many years. I praise God for that. Somebody didn’t give up on him.